Conatus Pharmaceuticals Announces Acceptance of Abstracts for AASLD Annual Meeting

Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

announced today that abstracts for two posters addressing preclinical results with the company's pan-caspase inhibitors, have been accepted for presentation at The Liver Meeting®, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco November 13-17, 2015. Accepted abstracts were published today on the AASLD website at www.aasld.org/ for posters entitled, "Alcohol stimulates macrophage activation through caspase dependent, hepatocyte derived release of CD40L containing extracellular vesicles," (poster #1315), and "Emricasan, a pan caspase inhibitor, improves survival and portal hypertension in a murine model of long-term common bile-duct ligation," (poster #1522). "There is a growing body of scientific data highlighting the role of biologically active microparticles in the progression of liver disease," said Al Spada, Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer of Conatus, "particularly in cirrhosis and its related complications such as portal hypertension. The data being presented at the upcoming AASLD meeting provide mechanistic support for the recently announced top-line results from our Portal Hypertension trial and encourage continued development of emricasan."